Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-02-18
THE D., D. & B. INSTITUTION.

THE D., D. & B. INSTITUTION.
THE ANNUAL REPORT OF THE PRINCE
PAL-LIsT OF THE FACULTY-sCHOL
AIRS FROM THIS vICINITY--ADDITIONA
BUILDINGS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY
FINANCES.
&C, &C., &C.
We have received the Annual Report Of
the Institution for the Deaf. Dumb and
the Blind, for the year ending September
] Both, 1885. We make some extracts of in
terest from it:
THE FACULTY.
The following are the members of the
Faculty of which Thomas S. Doyle, Prin'
clpal, is the head:
Deaf-Mute Department. Academic
Course-Guilford D. Euritt, E. Loring
| Turner, Frank &. Yates, Henry A. Bear,
VIM. M. Berkeley, Thomas J. Williams,
and Miss F. u. Shackelford; Articulation
and lip readipg-Misses Emma E. Grimm
and Kate L. May; Painting in oil-Talbot
Coleman; Crayon and Free-hand drawing
Miss M. Gay Trout; Caiisthenics-Miss
Augusta Hartman; Monitors-W. J. Fall
len, and Misses A. E. Garrett and Virginia
Shaver.
Blind Department. Academic Course
l.. Poyntz, A. B., John q. Ryan, Isaac S.
Humbert, and Miss M. M. Kerr; Music
Prof. A. J. Turner, John q. Ryan, and
Mrs. w. s. Hammond.
Household. r. Funston. Steward;
Mrs. F. b. Johnson, Matron; Miss M. L.
Graves, Assistant Matron; DR.. B. M. At
kinson, Physician.
Foremen of Workshops.-W. M. Berke-
ley, printing; Henry A. Bear, book-bind-
ing; A. A. Long, engineer; E. R. Moon,
carpenter, cabinet. &c; P. b. Graves,
tailor; Amos Holler, shoemaker; Jas. W.
McCambridge, cane-seating and broom
shops; Robert Mullen, mattress shop.
THE PUPILS DURING THE SESSION.
The number of deaf-mute pupils during
the session was AZ boys and Al girls, in
Guiding the following from this vicinity
James H. Carpenter, Augusta; John E.
Huff. Augusta; Chas. b. Lipscomb, Bath;
Sadie A. Martz, Augusta; Edward and
Joseph Merriken, Staunton; Anna Moselle
Poyntz, Staunton; Kate, Effie, Francina,
and Letcher Oscar Simmons, Highland;
Elizabeth A. Talley, Rockbridge; Horace
Via and Thomas M. Walton of Augusta.
and Betty Wickline of Allegheny.
In the Blind department. there were 81
boys and 16 girls, including Georgetta
Benn, Stanton; Lizzie M. Bolen, Staun-
ton; Archibald Perry, Rockingham; Jos.
l.. Rogers, Augusta; VIM. E. Sinclair,
Staunton; Washington Smith, Staunton.
and Theresa Album VanFossen, Staun-
ton.
AN ENLARGEMENT OF THE INSTITUTION
ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY.
The Principal in his report says: Gin
addition to the pupils now here. there are
several old ones yet TO come in. With any
thing like the number Of new ones that
usually join the school during the school
year, we may reasonably expect an atten-
dance even greater than that of last ses-
sion. AS said in my last annual report,
mo more pupils than we had last session,
lone hundred and twenty at one time) can
be comfortably provided for, either in the
dormitories. the dining room or the school
rooms" During the session which closed
in June of this year, We were still further
crowded, there being as many as one hun
dred and thirty pupils in the house at one
time. This increase was provided for by
crowding more beds into some of the dor
mitories, already too full, and by opening
the room in the attic corresponding with
the library on the main floor.
sThis steady, annual augmentation of
the population of the school calls for an
enlargement of our means of accommoda-
Jion for it. I therefore renew the recon-
mendation made in the last annual report,
that the Board of Visitors present to the
legislature at its next session, a petition
for an appropriation to erect an additional
building. Either this must be done, or
some of the afflicted children of the State
must be compelled to ask in vain for the
provision that is intended to be made for
them here, but of which they will be de-
barred by lack of necessary accommoda-
tions.p
IMPROVEMENTS MADE.
"a great deal has been done in this diree.
ton within the last twelve months. The
proposed extension of the carpenters shop
has been completed, filling up the space
between the shops building and the steam
house, and affording abundant room for
the machinery lately added to the equip
ment of the shop.
New floors have been laid in the music
Principals office, in several of the base
ment rooms, and on the two front wing
porches. The girls lavatory has been e1-
tensively reGtted. Two arches have been
put up in the main hall. The bake oven
has been taken down and entirely rebuilt
enlarging the bake house. The paving I'M
der the music hall porch has been relaid,
and new one put down along the whole
length of the east side of the same build
ing, being laid in cement and having sufi-
Gent slope to protect the foundation of
the structure from dampness and conse
quent decay. A number of ceilings have
been renewed in the main building and
under the music hall, and great deal of
painting has been done. Altogether the
house is in pretty thorough state of re-
pair-so thorough indeed that but little
more need be done upon it for some time
to Gomez